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Hand-Coloured Aquatint 'American Anecdote Wolves & Boy', 1813
€240 ($270, £205, €240)
Period original, not a reproduction.
Shipped from the Netherlands, flat, insured and tracked, worldwide. Returns accepted within 14 days.
- Date
- 1813
- Size
- 8.7 × 13 in (22.2 × 33 cm)
- Condition
- In good condition given age. General age related toning due to age and handling. Please study scan carefully.
- Period
- Early 19th century
- Section
- Mammals
- Reference
- f_40471262
American Anecdote: Wolves and Boy, an original hand-colored aquatint from Foreign Field Sports, published in London by Edward Orme in 1813. The plate is lettered "American Anecdote Wolves & Boy" below the image, with "Howitt del." and "Dubourg sculp." at the lower corners.
A boy runs along a sunlit forest path in the middle distance, glancing back over his shoulder. Wolves are closing on him from behind the trees: one crouches low by the roots of a large, twisted trunk at the center, and three more press forward through the undergrowth at the lower right. A dark spruce stands at the left, birch-like trees with yellow-green foliage fill the background, and the wolves are colored in warm browns and grays with a grassy ground beneath.
The sheet belongs to the series Foreign Field Sports, which collected hunting scenes and anecdotes from different countries; this is the plate set in North America. The aquatint ground and the fine hand coloring give the forest its depth.
